Container



coNTAIN'ER Filed Dec. 17. 1924 WL HW Patented June 14, 1927.

UN E ATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPI KAUF AN, or NEW Yoann, Y., Assmvoa :ro AMERICAN sA'ETY nAzoB COBPORATION, os NEW YORK, N; y., :A eoaPoRATIoN or VIBGINIA.

GO AINE Application filed December 17, 1924.] seri i no. 7563171;

My present inventionielatesgenerally to containers and to their association and' coordnately to such an association of containers as will on the one hand suggest` and' drive 5 home efiectively the advertising and Selling feat-ures of the article contaned in one'` of them, and as will on the other hand give to the user 'of the article a phy'sical' evidence of the benefits 'resulting from its use. 4

is well' known, the development of selfshaving is more `orless 'tied 'up with the .development of what is known as the safety razor, of which there are numerous types on the market. i

While the factors of convenience and cleanliness have had a great deal to do' with the almost universal 'practice of men to shave themselves, the greatest factorthat has'resnlted in its' universal development is v the saving resulting, particularly "in view of thefact that the cost of shaving inestablishments known as barber sho^ps,--has increased with the general rise in the costof all commodities 'and of service.

saving and consequently to increase the use of safety razors and their sale, slogans such as Shave and save have been adopted to bring out in aspithy and as attractive a way as possible the fact that by shaving one-` is also correspondingly small, a" relatively` its import, will be foreibly presented to the" user of a razor co'ntained in such case every i time'theindivid'ual usessuch raz'or e The" human mind is limited, however,

l more or less to the specific', and in eale ulat 0 ng savings, the average person keeps n' j In order to bring home this factcr of time when' mind only the fact that a single shave costs,

let us say, twenty cents at abarber shop,"

and that a similar operation at home, ro-

rated' for a sufficiently long't'ine, takingnto consideration the initial cost and the cost of replacement and upkeep,may be, say only" two cents, thus gvng a saving of eighteen cents. The ave'rage'dndvidual, however,

s the provision ofsucha character of case he saves eighteen for the Safe'tyrazor, whichwill not only at* all times remind a man of the fact that he is'saving by shaving himself and will su'g V gest to hin the f act' that he permit the savngs to accumulate, but which will give him a hysical' arrangement whereby accumula tions ofsuch savings can be made so that at the endof any stated period, as :for instance, at the end of six months or 'a year, he can not only tell definitely what the total saving has been as against the total cost, but' segre'gated fund; i e i e y nvention further provides an associin addition he Will have such saving in a ati'on with a razor, of a money container, so that when a person opens the shaving contai.ner to runover the razor for a shaving operaton there will' be right at hand not onlyfa remainder of the economy to be effected,but there will also be presented to the user` acoin slot leading to 'a container in which the money so saved at that particular shave can be put away and kept segregtedi Another important object of my invention s 'the provision of a new, useful, simple,

econorn-ieally constructed and effective con- 4 tainer, and more particularly one intended to as'sciate eontainers having a single" aim' in t view',- o'ne of w'liich isto serve as a bank' Fox the' attainment of these objects of such other objects as may hereinafter appear or be pointed out, I have illustrated one embodiment of my invention in the drawings wherein- Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the container with one end open, exposing the shaving outfit;

Fig. 2 is a perspective view' of the container with the opposite end open.

Fig. 3 is a vertical cross-section through the container; and

Fig. 4 is a view similar to Fig. 1 with the contents removed and partsbroken away so as to show the detailed construction.`

Fig. 5 is a view of 'a detail showing the manner of joining the cnds of the body blank.

Upon comparing Figs. 1 and 2nt the drawing, it will be'observed that my container comprises generally the body portion .10 which is open at opposite ends and is divided intermediate such open ends by the partition 11 into upper andlower Compartments 12 and 13, for which compartments the members 14 and 15 serve as closures.

The body member 10 is preferably formed of a single blank of sheet material bent so as to form the front wall 16, the rear wall 17 and the side walls 18 and 19, the ends of the blank being joined at 20' as shown more clearly in Fig. 5 of the drawing by having each end bent backupon itself and received between the doubled-up, portions of the oth ci' end; The body member is finished oti? ex-` i ter orly by an outer covering 23 which may` be of a material ,to imitate leather and which as shown is arranged to cover the eXterior or all four walls and to be passed over the upper and lower ends of the walls and down upon the upper and lower inner portions thereof.

The partition 20 preferably made of metal is arranged to be secured within the body member 10 and intermediate the upper and lower ends thereof, this partition 20 being preterably of such dimensions as to be received snugly within said body 10 and is cut out as shown in 21 so as to provide :tor the overlappin joint or connection 20'. This partition 20 may be secured in position in any preterred or desired manner as by glue.

In the upper compartment 12 is positioned the composite' structure comprising the base member 26 and the block 27, shaped as shown in Figs. 1 and 3 of the drawing and arranged so as to form seats and compartments for a razor and a blade receptacle as shown in Fig. 1 of the drawing. v

The block 27 is provided with the slot 30 passing thcrethrough and in order'that the inclusion of this slot may not reduce the available area of the container 25, it is placed relatively close to one wall, preferably close to the front wall of the body member,

10 and the base member 26 is cut away in registry with the slot as shown in Fig. 3 of the drawing. Partition 20 is similarly cut away. In this manner I provide a slot 30 of a size to receive coins of various values. This slot is open at one end to the upper receptacle in which, as stated, are to be received the shavng implements, and is open at its other end through the partition 20 into the lower compartnent 13.

The covermembers 14 and 15, the former for the upper compartment 12 and the latter for the lower compartment 13 are of any desired or preferredr character, contours, and dimensions and each is pivoted to the body member 10 as by the hinge members 40 and 41 secured together by pintle 42.

Upon viewing Fig. 4 of the drawing, it will be observed that I use the leaf spring 44 which is of such a character that it maintains the covers in either the closed or open positien. The cover menbers 14 and 15 which may preferably be alike in all respects, each comprises the stamping 45 having the continuous side walls as shown and provided with the fiange 46 cut away centrally at 47 and also cut away at predetermined points as shown at 48, through which openings 48 are received the prongs 49 cut out from the closure base member 50 and bent around the flange 46.

The side members 45 and the cover base member 50 are finished off exteriorly in any desired or preferred manner as 'by being covered by a material 51, in imitation ot leather. i

Attached to the front of the wall 17 of the container 12, is the member 53 (see Figs.

2 and 3) provided with an opening 54 in which is to be received catch 55. Inovable within the casing 56 and controlled to be moved to its locked and unlocked position by means of a conventional type of key. The compartment 12 is, as already stated, intended to contain a safety razor outfit as shown in Fig. 1 of the drawing, whereas the compartment 13 is intended to serve as a savin zs bank and for this reason, as has already been described the compartment 13 is arranged to be locked, whereasthe compartment 12 is arranged tobe opened at will and not locked. i v y It will be understood from the description thus far given, that I have provided a safety razor container, which is so constructed that anyone attempting to use the razor contained therein :for shaving, will not only necessarily have brought tohis attention the fact that there is a saving resulting from shaving himself, but also that such a saving should be deposited into the compartment 13 through the opening 30. In addition to' this, the closures for this container are so* constructed that while the closure for the razor compartment can be opened and closed Conveniently and without difliculty, the closure for the savings bank can be opened only by the operation of a key.

illustratedits use, What I claim as new and ,desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A closure for a container having an open-ended body portion, said closure including a stamping having continuous side Walls and a fiange, portious of which are cut away to provide openings, and a closure base member having portions struck up therefrom, said strucl( up portions being in the form of tabs which are passed through the openngs and bent down upon the adjacent material.

2. In a device of the character described, a container having a body portion open at its opposite ends, closures for said open ends, a partition associated with the body portion and intermediate the open ends Having now described my invention and' thereof whereby superimposed Compartments are formed, a saddle block in one of the compartments to receive parts of the shaving apparatus and a coin slot through the saddle block leading to the other compartment and means for looking the con conpartment, said closures including a stamping having continuous side walls and a flange, predetermined portions of which" are cut away, and a closure base member having struck up portions adapted to engage the flange at the cut away portions thereof.

In witness Whereof, I have hereunto V signed my name this 8t'h day of Dec., 1924.`

JOSEPH KAUFMAN, i 

